{"id":59773,"date":"2018-06-28T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59773"},"modified":"2018-06-28T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:01:01","slug":"akila-viraj-kariyawasam-challenges-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-to-prove-he-is-a-true-patriot-by-revoking-his-us-citizenship-regardless-of-whether-he-contests-the-sri-lankan-presidential-election-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59773","title":{"rendered":"Akila Viraj Kariyawasam Challenges Gotabhaya Rajapaksa To Prove He is a True Patriot By Revoking His US Citizenship Regardless of Whether He Contests the Sri Lankan Presidential Election or Not."},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Minister of Education yesterday challenged former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to revoke his American citizenship regardless of whether the latter would contest in a Sri Lankan election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA true patriot will have no problem revoking the citizenship of another country,\u201d Minister of Education and UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said. <\/p>\n

Minister Kariyawasam made these remarks while addressing a press conference yesterday at the UNP Headquarters in Kotte. <\/p>\n

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The Minister pointed out that, although Rajapaksa had claimed he could revoke his American citizenship in less than two months, the latter had also made statements that this would only be in the case of an election.<\/p>\n

\u201cGotabhaya Rajapaksa has said that he can revoke it in just two months, but he has also made a statement that he would not revoke his American citizenship if he had no need to contest an election. A true patriot would have no problem with revoking another country\u2019s citizenship,\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minister went on to say that only someone who despised their own motherland would seek citizenship in a foreign land. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe public must be made aware of these false patriots who claim to love their country but are citizens of foreign nations. Only those who dislike their motherland choose to become citizens of another country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to the recent statement by a prominent Buddhist monk calling on the former Defence Secretary to follow Hitler\u2019s iron fist governance policies, Minister Kariyawasam said that there were many similarities between Hitler and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth Hitler and Gotabhaya are vegetarians. Similarly, they both were citizens of foreign nations. Hitler was not a German citizen and Rajapaksa is an American citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then likened Joint Opposition Parliamentary antics to Hitler\u2019s burning of the German Parliament building. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne of Hitler\u2019s first acts after coming into power was to burn down the German Parliament building. The Joint Opposition, too, is destroying our Parliamentary system and plotting the downfall of Parliament to further their authoritarian agenda,\u201d Minister Kariyawasam said.
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\nCourtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Minister of Education yesterday challenged former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to revoke his American citizenship regardless of whether the latter would contest in a Sri Lankan election. \u201cA true patriot will have no problem revoking the citizenship of another country,\u201d Minister of Education and UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said. Minister Kariyawasam made …<\/p>\n

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